OK, i'm not sure that this strictly belongs here but I'm sure its close enough anyway.

I am looking for a linux distro to use on a wireless network to broadcast video (tv for example, although others would be similar) from a capture card of some sort. By broadcast I mean through the network somehow, Theres probably some better word for it...

Anyhow, I am wondering what distro would best fit this requirement and if it would be possable really without majour loss of quality. DSL may do fine, but I would prefer something more sleek and headless so that it boots fast and no manual configuration is really needed on the server end each startup.

This is just an idea I had, so if its inplausable, stupid, has simple alternates or you feel the need for your 2c please explain in full. Anyhow I am intrested in your ideas, please be very descriptave.

So the hard part would be telling DSL what video capture card to use (and getting it working) and then getting the WIFI adapter detected and configured...then everything else is just configureing the VLC stuff...and kapow!

Hope that helps

BrianAwPhuch

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wow, vlc seems like a pretty good solution to this. I allready have ways of configureing the wireless LAN, but my tv card (pixelview play tv pro) is not auto-configured by dsl as far as i can tell. It has a BT878 chipset (if my memory is accurate) so thats fairly common, i dont know what decoder it uses though so getting it going will probably be a bit tricky. I plan on using a P4 Celeron D 2.4Ghz that one of my friends gave me because he couldnt get DOOMII running on, so it should be fairly powerfull. Would it then be possable to encode the video to divx etc live, before streaming it?

What do I need to compile VLC?, I can probably do it myself and save others the hassle, but I have no clue as to putting together a .dsl.

Anyway, thanks for your input -it seems like a vaild path to completing this project.

Yes, VLC will do LIVE re-encoding and streaming out to a client. This is the main purpose of the VLC program. You still need a powerful CPU in order to do this, and realtime high definitition transcoding and streaming can only be done on the fastest processors. But a 2.4Gig CPU should be fine for standard definition TV broadcasts.

I wouldn't bother compiling it from source. Just grab the latest version via apt-get or Synaptic

You may need to re-point your apt sources over to "unstable", "experimental" , or maybe even to a standalone repository that is dedicated to host the latest version of VLC

I aplolgise now for making you all a little stupider, I have been looking around on the forums and google but I cant make it go. So far I've "enable apt"'d and i figure from here: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin....ase=all that I probably just need the "VLC" package to start with (indeed a probably stupid assumption -but I dont have any better ideas at the moment, so I'm running with it)

Anyway, I figure the command "sudo apt-get install vlc" is probably what I need, well anyway heres some console output: